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Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] Johnson.

To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.

To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like. Dismounted from his authority. Barrow.

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.

ations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.

It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

ut regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.

A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology. Divinity is essentially the first of the professions. Coleridge. , casuistry.

to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. "Doctrinal clauses." Macaulay.

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

hts of the citizen scrupulously guarded. Motley. Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.

a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.

drawn; a delineation. A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member. Macaulay. No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye. South.